Tarlochan S. Sidhu (M'90-SM'94-F'04) received his B.E. (Hons.) degree from the Punjabi University, Patiala, India and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. He was with the Regional Computer Center, Chandigarh, India, and Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, ON, Canada. From 1990 to 2002, he was as a Professor and Graduate Chairman of the University of Saskatchewan. Currently, he is Professor and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. He is also the NSERC /Hydro one Chair in Power Systems Engineering.  Effective Jan 2012, Tarlochan will join University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) as Dean of its Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.

Dr. Sidhu is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India),  (U.K),  Canada, and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA).  He is a Registered Engineer in the Province of Ontario and a Chartered Engineer in the U.K.  When not working, Tarlochan likes to travel with his family.

Zoran Gajic was born in Serbia, former Yugoslavia. He received his MSEE with honors from the University of Belgrade, Serbia and PhD in electrical engineering from Lund University, Sweden. Since 1993 he has been working in the area of power system protection and control within ABB Group of companies, where he had various engineering positions. Currently he has the position of Global Product Manager for Transformer and Generator Protection with ABB SA Products in Sweden.  Dr. Gajic is a member of Cigré and PES/IEEE. He has published many technical papers in the relay protection area and holds several patents. His main working areas are practical applications of protection relays, computer applications for protection and control of electrical power system, development of advanced protection algorithms for numerical relays and power system simulations.

Zoran likes playing chess and when time allows, he participates in regional competitions.

Volker Leitloff  (1965), studied Electrical Engineering at the university of Stuttgart/Germany from where he earned his Dipl-Ing. degree in 1991. From 1991 to 1994 he prepared his PhD-thesis at the Laboratoire d'Electrotechnique de Grenoble and received the Dr. INPG degree from the Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in 1994. From 1994 to 2002, he was with the R&D Division of Electricité de France where  he worked successively on network protection and on transformers and network technology. Since 2003, he has been  with the French Transmission Network Operator RTE where he works on protection of transmission networks and substation control. He is the French member of  the CIGRE Study Committee B5, past convener of CIGRE WG B5.06 on DSAS Maintenance and actual and past member of WG 34.10, B5.10, B5.13 and B5.43.

When Volker is not working,  he enjoys reading, swimming, and sightseeing with his family.  The picture on the right was taken this summer (2011) in Madrid.

Thomas Schossig   (IEEE) received his MS in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Ilmenau (Germany). He worked as a project engineer for control systems and as a team leader for protective relaying at VA TECH SAT in Germany from 1998 until 2005. He joined OMICRON as a product manager for substation communication products. Additionally, he is responsible for the IEC 61850 trainings at OMICRON. He is author of several papers and a member of standardization WGs.

Thomas, Jonathan and Walter Schossig (from left to right) are interested in history. Here they found a Dimitredon (in the front) under a 110-kV transmission line (in the back), in Thuringia/ Germany.)  The animal was living during the Perm period (280- 265 million years ago). The line Gotha-Breitungen was put into operation in 1966 in exchange of the 50-kV-line built in 1933.